PBase Geotag/Maps Beta Version

[John_Scurlock]

Pbase has just released their beta version of geotag support. It's a terrific development, something I had hoped & lobbied for, for quite a while. They have used a number of my images in the testing of it, & here is an example:

 

http://www.pbase.com/nolock/image/92590501 - click on the 'view map' link below the image, and this will take you into a version of the satellite view of Google Earth. I have only played around a little with it, but I have noticed that tags are present on the sat view for quite a number of my images. It's important to note that the marker on the map reflects the location the photograph was taken, not the location of what is shown in the photograph.

 

I was not geotagging prior to May of 2007, so I'll have to manually tag any photographs taken prior to that. It's an extremely tedious project that will involve perhaps 3000+ images. My guess is that it will take months, at least, for significant progress to made on that, especially considering my expertise at procrastination...

 

Note that the lat/long/altitude data from the EXIF file is only carried into Pbase in the 'original' version of the image, if you are looking at downloaded images in an image browser. It could be seen using Irfanview or Breezebrowser, for example.

[Kat_Roslyn]

Wow! That is phenomenol! Is it just going to be your images or when you click on the google earth do you have to see others' tags as well?

 

 

 

[AlpineK]

That's really really helpful John.

[layton]

John,

I'm going to geo-chache treasure with this great new tool!

[Weekend_Climberz]

Damn, should have brought a towel to work today. Now, my monitor REALLY needs to be wiped off.

[John_Scurlock]

Yep, I think for the geo-cachers, this stuff is their entire gig.

 

Pbase has also enabled batch-upload mapping support as of yesterday. I just uploaded a bunch of stuff here - http://www.pbase.com/nolock/lillooet - not named yet, but easily located in the GE satellite view ('view map' link). And in the galleries where all the images are geotagged, there's an option to look at the locations of ALL the images in that gallery, such as this: http://maps.pbase.com/nolock/lillooet

 

It's really a tremendous development. I've been playing around a little with the manual tagging, it's actually not too difficult so I'll start picking away at the non-tagged galleries as time permits.

[olyclimber]

John, what are you using to automate geotagging on your photos going forward? A GPS with time synch so you can synch it with the camera time?

 

I use a Mac...this is one possibility:

http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/

 

Any other interesting possibilities?

[pup_on_the_mountain]

WOW!!! This tool is really awesome. :tup:

[klenke]

Nice, John. Your mountain porn site just gets better and better. You should charge a subscription.

[John_Scurlock]

John, what are you using to automate geotagging on your photos going forward? A GPS with time synch so you can synch it with the camera time?

 

I use a Mac...this is one possibility:

http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/

 

Any other interesting possibilities?

 

Here's the summary of my process that I posted in the PBase forums (first post at the top of the page):

 

http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?t=36651&start=30

 

The basic deal would be the same whether walking, climbing, driving, etc. Many variations on the theme. I will say that I've had poor luck trying to do it with track log files brought in from my Lowrance aviation gps. The problem stems from the track log file format issue.

 

To be honest, PK, I've received more back from that site than I could've possibly imagined, way back when, & I've never considered doing any sort of pay deal on it. No second thoughts or regrets whatsoever.

[klenke]

I realize money isn't everything...but...

 

Dude, with the money you could have raked in, you could be sailing the seven seas in a big yellow yacht. It would, of course, have to be a custom yacht. And then...and then...and then you could take photos of atolls and palm tree beaches and upload them to your site and have Google map links for them. Mai tais would replace aviation fuel. And Scuba diving gear would replace flight suits.

 

 

[John_Scurlock]

I realize money isn't everything...but...

 

Dude, with the money you could have raked in, you could be sailing the seven seas in a big yellow yacht. It would, of course, have to be a custom yacht. And then...and then...and then you could take photos of atolls and palm tree beaches and upload them to your site and have Google map links for them. Mai tais would replace aviation fuel. And Scuba diving gear would replace flight suits.

 

 

hmmm... would you be there???